Iranian Jewish expatriates themselves have come out against a bombing campaign by the US or Israel against Iran. There are still tens of thousands of Jews in Iran, and expatriate Iranian Jews most often identify as Iranians and express Iranian patriotism. I was in Los Angeles when tens of thousands of Iranians immigrated, fleeing the Khomeini regime. I still remember Jewish Iranian families who suffered a year or two in what they thought of as the sterile social atmosphere of LA, and who shrugged and moved right back to Iran, where they said they felt more comfortable.
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Torn loyalties of Israel's Iranian Jews
By Bethany Bell
BBC News, Jerusalem
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Twice a week Menashe Amir, a Persian Israeli, hosts a rather unexpected talk show. The callers are all from Iran and the vast majority are Muslim.
The show attracts two to six million listeners everyday from a country where the Jewish community is just 20,000 strong.
"I would say if 10 people are calling us from Iran, only one is talking about destroying Israel or death to Israel," said Mr Amir.
The Iranian callers cannot ring Israel directly. They have to phone a number in Germany which is patched through to the Jerusalem studio.
Mr Amir is worried about the current state of affairs in Iran.
"I am an Iranian and I am an Israeli. This is a bad period but I hope it will be very short," he said.
But he says the ancient links between Jews and Iranians, which date back to the time of the Persian emperor Cyrus the Great, will not be broken so easily...
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"To me the current conflict is like parents going through a divorce. Who do you like more, your mother or your father?", Meir Javedanfar.
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